Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Zhuang Rui stopped moving.

His body was in a strange posture, leaning forward with his left leg stepping forward.

It resembles a lifelike human-shaped statue.

Everyone turned pale; the scene was bizarre and uncanny!

Throughout the entire ordeal, no one saw even a single ghostly figure.

Only Zhuang Rui is conversing with the void and an invisible being!

"Isn't the ghost in the bathroom?"

Hu Li murmured in disbelief, "Why...why is Zhuang Rui still dead?"

Murong Qing hesitated for a moment. She felt that Zhuang Rui's condition was strange. His body had not collapsed and he did not look like he was dead.

However, there was no sign of life.

Fei'er immediately went to the bedroom, intending to pull Zhuang Rui's stiff body back to normal to see if there was any hope of saving him.

"and many more!"

Chen Ji grabbed her and went into the bedroom first.

He grabbed the blood-soaked bed sheet, slowly approached the dressing table from the side, and then covered the mirror with the sheet.

Then he pulled Zhuang Rui's body out.

"It's not that there's a ghost in the bathroom."

To put it simply, Chen knew everything the moment he saw the direction Zhuang Rui was facing.

"It's a mirror."

"Mirror?"

Zuo Shiming was stunned for a moment, then recalled the scene when Zhuang Rui spoke, and suddenly understood.

The place he was looking at was the large mirror on the dressing table!

And of course, there will be mirrors in the bathroom!

The unusual encounter Chen Ji had with the ghost this morning might have been an illusion created by the ghost.

"It's really hard to guard against."

Zuo Shiming sighed. To discover this taboo, one would almost certainly have to pay the price of death.

The men laid Zhuang Rui on the ground. His smile remained unchanged, but his body was as stiff as a stone.

After a period of investigation, the atmosphere inside the house became even more somber.

Zhuang Rui is on the borderline between life and death!

He had stopped breathing completely, but his heart was still beating slowly.

At the same time, Zhuang Rui did not react in the slightest to any stimulus.

"what happened to him?"

Yuanyuan pursed her lips tightly, feeling that Zhuang Rui's current state was very much like that of a person in a vegetative state.

"brain death."

Murong Qing said simply, "He can no longer breathe on his own. In less than a minute, Zhuang Rui's heart will stop beating."

"The reason we can still feel his heartbeat now is not because he is still alive; it is just an instinctive physiological reaction."

"how come……"

Yuan Yuan collapsed to the ground, her lips trembling silently.

Murong Qing's words meant that everyone present would have to watch Zhuang Rui walk step by step, inevitably, toward death.

This was even more unbearable for Yuanyuan than seeing Wu Zhonghai's corpse!

Everyone's expression was complex, a mixture of regret, fear, contemplation, and relief...

A variety of emotions surfaced on their faces.

Chen Ji raised his head, no longer looking at Zhuang Rui's joyful face.

The matter is now clear: Zhuang Rui has been bewitched by a ghost.

The taboo that triggers death most likely involves spending a certain amount of time in front of a mirror.

If he had run even a little slower this morning...

Or perhaps, they chose the wrong way out and remained in the bathroom.

So Chen Ji's current state is probably similar to Zhuang Rui's...

The body remains in reality.

The soul, however, has been locked away in the mirror forever, along with the ghost.

Zuo Shiming, who had been kneeling on the ground with his hands on Zhuang Rui's chest, slowly stood up.

A hint of pity flashed across his face.

"Zhuang Rui has no heartbeat."

Zuo Shiming said in a low voice, took two steps back, and returned to the group.

"At least he died happily."

"Zhuang Rui probably thinks he has found his way home."

Chen Ji sighed softly. From Zhuang Rui's words before his death, it was not difficult to judge what the ghost had bewitched him about.

As the atmosphere grew increasingly oppressive, the remaining six continued their search.

Under Chen Ji's instructions, all the mirrors within sight were covered.

Fortunately, the group managed to find some information about Brother Yuan in room 305.

However, this information gave the six people a strange feeling.

At 10 p.m., everyone gathered at the dining table in room 403.

Looking at the documents laid out in front of him, Chen Ji remained silent.

Brother Yuan, whose full name is Chen Zhiyuan, is 26 years old.

Ten years ago, I was admitted to a university in another province, and later stayed in the city where the university was located.

His experience is no less complicated than Vera Wang's. Judging from the photos collected, Chen Zhiyuan has a very rebellious and free-spirited personality.

He formed a rock band, loved riding motorcycles, and had many like-minded friends.

Chen Ji picked up a photo of Chen Zhiyuan, who had long black hair and a smug smile on his face, looking carefree and unrestrained.

Beside him stood a short-haired girl in a leather jacket, with a bright smile.

The two people in the photo are each holding a bottle of beer, their eyes revealing boundless anticipation for the future and for their youth.

It's as if... they firmly believe that their future life will be as they wish.

[A photo of me and Yue before a performance in the summer of 2005]

This is a line of small print on the back of the photo: Yue, which refers to Chen Zhiyuan's girlfriend of many years, the short-haired girl.

Almost the instant I saw this information...

Everyone has come to understand a strange fact.

Chen Zhiyuan is the son of Wang Lijun and Chen Jianguo.

Yes, he's Vera Wang's cousin!

But the two of them actually got married!

"Can't close relatives marry?"

Hu Li was increasingly confused. "Moreover, they are close relatives within two generations. How is that possible?"

"How could Wang Lijun and Wang Su possibly agree to this marriage?"

Murong Qing's expression was complicated, and after a long while she said:

"Do you think it's their parents who disagree, or them?"

Chen Ji thought for a moment before saying, "I think it's unlikely that Chen Zhiyuan would do such a thing, given his personality."

All evidence proves that Chen Zhiyuan is a person who loves freedom.

How could he give up his beloved career and his girlfriend of many years to choose to return to his hometown and marry his cousin?

Similarly, Vera Wang is the same.

Her studies and future were bright. Now she has returned to Liting Apartments, where she helps out in the small supermarket and has also married her cousin.

No matter how you look at it, they were forced into it.

Chen Ji was almost certain that all of this was at the behest of both sets of parents.

To be precise, it should be Wang Su and Wang Lijun's decision.

But what is the purpose of all this?

The six of them discussed it for a while longer, but something still felt off.

It doesn't seem to be simply a matter of pressuring someone to get married, or that the Wang siblings are too feudal.

Based on the information gathered, both Wang Su and Wang Lijun treated their child quite well.

Otherwise, Chen Zhiyuan would not have sent photos of his life to his family.

"Is this domain... a family drama?"

Murong Qing was somewhat confused. Now that there were more and more clues, everyone was even more bewildered.

11:13.

After the discussion ended hastily, everyone lay down in advance, waiting for the cycle to end.

The dark dream has descended once more...

In the third cycle, they experienced Zhuang Rui's death and the messages from the couple in Room 502.

This concludes the entire matter.